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Joel Meador MP(c.1729 - 1793)

Joel Meador was born c.1729 in Cumberland County, Virginia. He was the son of Jonas Meador and Frances Hudgens. He married Susanna Clark on November 25, 1750 in Bedford County, Virginia. He died in 179...

Yeoman, Friend. Born 6/19/1679 in the Parish of Donnahling, County of Down, Province of Ulster, Ireland. He was the eldest of his fathers family, and was eight years old when he came to America. In 170...

"Stephen Blanchard, helped with the underground railroad through Shelby County [Ohio]. His farm house is on the National Historical registry." information provided by Carol Sidders
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Specified to be both a Quaker and a chirurgeon (medical doctor).
There is no hard evidence that he was ever known as "Mowrey" or "Mowery". He most certainly did not use that name after arrival in Vir...

Sarah Jackson was the daughter of Anthony Jackson. She was born c. 1666 in Cootehill, Co. Cavan, Ireland. She married Robert Thornburgh in 1686. He was the son of Charles Thornburgh and Elizabeth Leybo...

Charles Thornburgh , son of William Thornburgh and Catherine Langtree, was born 19 Jul 1635 in Methop, England, and died in 1669 in England. He married Elizabeth Leyburne, daughter of Thomas Leyburne a...

Robert Thornburgh was the son of Charles Thornburgh and Elizabeth Leyburne. He was born in c.1661 in Lancashire, England and died in Cootehill, County Caven, Ireland. He married Sarah Jackson on 1686 i...

While the Chapman family was not very prominently identified with the Friends Meeting at Richland, several members located in Upper Bucks quite early, and were identified with the affairs of the Friend...

Joseph Richardson was also an ardent member of the Society of Friends like his father. He was "the fifth child and fourth son of William Richardson". He was born 3 Apr 1678 in Anne Arundel County in Ma...

Imprisoned with other Quakers for nine weeks. Probabily for his failure to pay tithes
Thomas was a wealthy ironmonger. He was also an early (Ca 1655) publisher of Quaker teachings. In 1675 he was imp...

Restore Lippincott, was the third son of Richard Lippincott, the ancestor of the Lippincotts in America. From John Clement's first settlers in Newton Township we find that Richard emigrated from Devons...

William and Sarah Carlisle were married in Christ Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, a marriage "out of Meeting". However, they were both Quakers, and the Friends of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting gave sati...

I am related to Ralph in 2 ways, one with his first wife and one with his second.
Ralph arrived in America in the fall of 1682 on the Friend's Adventure as an indentured servant to Randal Blackshaw f...

Randall and Alice (Burgis) Blackshaw, of Hot lingee, County of Chester, England, who with their children, Phebe, Sarah, Jacob, Mary, Nehemiah, Martha and Abraham, embarked for America. September 5, 168...

When Nathaniel was appointed administrator of his father's estate in 1715 he was listed as residing at Duck Creek, Kent County, Delaware but on 1 3rd Mo. 1729 he was granted a certificate from Duck Cre...

There are no death records for a William or Elizabeth Goody in the "England and Wales, Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8)." Index. FamilySearch. : accessed 2013., nor a record for a birth of an Abig...

This Ann Taylor 1651 - 1732, did not marry John or Joseph Preston.
As recorded in the Ould Preston Bible: "My worthy husband William Preston departed this life ye 19th 7 month about half an hour afte...

Born: 30th. 9 mo., 1690
Paul Preston was a leading iron worker of his day. His will, proved December 5, 1732, shows a good estate including numerous iron objects. Estate also included two negro men, ...

Thomas Oldman is thought to be the son of John and Elizabeth Oldman of Scarning, a small town within a few miles of Horningtoft, Norfolk. Norfolk was one of the centers of persecution of Quakerism. It ...

John Rush commanded a troop of horses in Cromwell's army. He embraced the principals of the Quakers in 1660 and came to Pennsylvania in 1683 with seven children and several grandchildren. He settled at...

Margaret Beeson was born c. 1708 and died on March 19, 1775 at New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina. She married Walter Thornburgh of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Walter Tho...

John Parke, son of Roger, married Sarah, daughter of the first Andrew Smith, who bought land in Hopewell in 1688, and his deed is the first recorded document bearing the name of "Hopewell." The Parke f...

The parents of Sarah Carter were Ninevah Carter and Mary CLAYTON Carter (who were devout Quakers) so perhaps James & Sarah named one of their sons Ninevah.
The name Ninevah is rather unique and was c...

William Gifford was probably born around 1615. He immigrated to New England after 1643, and settled in Stanford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was ordered whipped and banished from Connecticut in 1...

William GIFFORD may be the son of Annaniah GIFFORD by a first wife.
William GIFFORD's first wife was probably the daughter of Joseph and Margaret PARKER. Joseph and Margaret lived near the GIFFORDs n...

Eliakim Wardell was an early settler of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and served as that county's first sheriff.[1]
Wardell was appointed sheriff on May 31, 1683 by Deputy Governor Thomas Rudyard purs...

From Quakers of Chester co., PA
Joseph Dickinson (1706-aft 1780) came to New Jersey in 1725 at the age of 18 or 19 from Ireland, though he was reportedly born in Cumberland Co., England. He's got a p...

Extract from "The Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania":
Patrick Henderson, the author of a work called "Truth and Innocence, The Armour and Defense of the People called Quakers," was a pro...

Joshua married three times, once to Ann, once to Eleanor, once to Isabel Middleton. All of his children were with his first wife, Ann.
Joshua owned land in Makefield, PA, 1723. Upon his arrival in Ph...

Her son in law George Steele wrote in 1918: "Mrs. Sarah Pownall was the best and most capable woman I ever knew". Read the story here: Reminiscences of the Christiana riot
From Bloody Dawn : The Chri...

John Coffin was born at Haverhill, Mass. 30 Oct. 1647, the son of Tristram, and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin was the first one of this large and well-known family to take up his residence at the Vineyard. I...

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In the name of God, Amen. I, SAMUEL PALMER, of Mamaroneck, in Westchester County, being in perfect health. I leave to my wife Mary, all movable estate during her life, and then to my children an...

"the records clearly indicate that there were 2 adult Ralph Allens in southeastern Massachusetts in the mid-1600s. The records also indicate that one was the son of George Allen of Sandwich, and that t...

Lawrence Southwick (ca. 1600-1660) was an early immigrant to the American colonies and a devout Quaker (member of the Religious Society of Friends), who was persecuted for his beliefs.
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Although author Zane Grey believed that his ancestry was Danish, Robert Zane, a Quaker, carried the family name to the New World in 1673 from England, and he resided at various locations in New Jersey....

Benjamin Lanier moved to Brunswick County, Virginia which later became Mecklenburg County. Benjamin B. Lanier was a recorded patriot of the American Revolution. During the Revolutionary War he gave mon...

Came to America in 1699 with William Penn.
Ship Brittannia was chartered by Lancaster Quaker Meeting out of Liverpool, was at sea 14 weeks. Shortage of water and beer and Illness caused 56 deaths out...